Comments on: Clinicians Can Play Critical Role in Getting VA Care Back on Trackhttp://www.usmedicine.com/agencies/department-of-veterans-affairs/clinicians-can-play-critical-role-in-getting-va-care-back-on-track/
The Voice of Federal MedicineWed, 11 Mar 2015 21:29:53 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: Naren Guptahttp://www.usmedicine.com/agencies/department-of-veterans-affairs/clinicians-can-play-critical-role-in-getting-va-care-back-on-track/#comment-386
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:20:53 +0000http://www.usmedicine.com/?p=5660#comment-386I could not agree more with this article. There are 3 groups in this system: the patient, the staff directly supporting patient care, and the administrators.
At this point, administrators who have no direct role in patient care are making decisions about clinical goals with minimal representation from patients or clinical staff. As that section becomes bloated, they have to keep inventing new rules to justify their own jobs.

The result is the entire system is being overwhelmed with unrealistic and clinically unimportant goals and rules. In the confusion, the important patient care issues like inadequate clinical staff and overwhelmed physical plants, as well as poorly performing staff-members, are obscured.